Mark Muro

Senior fellow and policy director, Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings. Interested in innovation, regions, the clean economy and lots of other stuff

[The Brookings Institution @BrookingsInst]

Where are AI-exposed workers concentrated, and how do they vote? New research from Mark Muro, Todd Jones, and Shriya Methkupally maps the political geography of AI exposure ahead of the midterms. https://t.co/sxP89BUEDu

[Todd Jones 🦊 @toddrjones]

It's fun to see my research with @MarkMuro1 and Shriya Methkupally @BrookingsInst appear in the Financial Times!

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

#usmfg emp continues to go sideways but some places are now hot spots.

See the story from @fstockman @nytimes re vibrant Columbus, now stoked by govt hard tech

@intel and @anduriltech will be major drivers

https://t.co/750Dpzp5QP

@cbuspartnership @joeparilla @PalmerLuckey

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

Exactly

[Anurag Shukla @Anuraag_Shukla]

The real danger of AI is not that machines will become gods. It is that human beings may forget what godhead, dignity, conscience, and personhood mean.

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

#AI anxiety could create fissures in the Democratic places we show will be most affected.

Anti-AI populism could battle with economic centrists

See interesting @tejparikh90 post below and our @BrookingsInst brief here:
https://t.co/mgMftHPENv

@toddrjones @dwarkesh_sp

[Tej Parikh @tejparikh90]

Anti-AI populism is on its way.

My latest column for @FT: Tech anxiety will be seized upon by politicians—echoing the anti-immigration rhetoric that has shaped public discourse over much of the past decade
https://t.co/llt1ULV9kB

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

The always incisive @tejparikh90 parses emerging fissures foreshadowed by AI jitters and our new work on #AI political geography.

https://t.co/mgMftHPENv

Look for technophobia & #AI populism but also calls for management of the transition

@FT @rodriguez_pose @AndrewCities

[Tej Parikh @tejparikh90]

Anti-AI populism is on its way.

My latest column for @FT: Tech anxiety will be seized upon by politicians—echoing the anti-immigration rhetoric that has shaped public discourse over much of the past decade
https://t.co/llt1ULV9kB

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

This could have real implications going forward

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

We mapped county-level AI exposure using @Anthropic's occupation-level data (weighted by local employment) against 2024 presidential returns.

The correlation between automation exposure and Democratic vote share is striking

https://t.co/aWgmpquKbi

@RonBrownstein

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

#AI exposed counties lean "blue" but that doesn't mean job losses are imminent or that anxiety is driving their blueness.

It does mean blue counties are where workers have the most reason to be watching AI closely

https://t.co/aWgmpquKbi

@carlbfrey

[Todd Jones 🦊 @toddrjones]

Link: https://t.co/J58qEhPMdR. Joint with @MarkMuro1 and Shriya Methkupally.

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

About our new research re the "blue" tilt of AI-exposed places:

It makes sense to me that people who are involved with AI—including ones who may benefit from it—will likely feel anxiety about it.

https://t.co/mgMftHPENv

@paulkrugman @GregTSargent @ProducerCities @toddrjones

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

Adjacent to the #AI backlash: Our new research shows that the most AI-exposed jobs are in "blue" counties. Helps explain why AI is becoming a defining issue for the left

https://t.co/aWgmpquKbi

@dwarkesh_sp @sarahoconnor_ @jburnmurdoch @NewDemCoalition @BillGalston

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

We mapped county-level AI exposure using @Anthropic's occupation-level data (weighted by local employment) against 2024 presidential returns.

The correlation between automation exposure and Democratic vote share is striking

https://t.co/aWgmpquKbi

@RonBrownstein

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

New from @BrookingsInst: 62 of the 100 most AI-exposed counties in the U.S. voted blue in the 2024 presidential election.

https://t.co/uOFxKub4iy

Blue places concentrate the office & knowledge workers most at risk from AI

@BrookingsMetro @erikbryn @jasminewsun @sebkrier

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

"The political geography of AI exposure:"

My new post with @toddrjones and @shriyared looks at the red-blue realities of #AI involvement.

AI-exposed counties tended to vote "blue" in 2024 presidential campaigan.

https://t.co/aWgmpquKbi

@BrookingsMetro @BrookingsInst

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

Interesting note from @JakeSherman ...look tomorrow for @BrookingsInst research on red-blue dynamics in the geography of AI politics

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

The women who power America's offices are making themselves AI-proof.

Smart, lively take from @ChabeliC_ at The 19th, with assist from our @BrookingsInst @OpptyatWork research on career pathways

https://t.co/hTyq3xWfXV

@DebroyPapia @justinheck @sj_manning @Mollykinder

[Shira Ovide @ShiraOvide]

AI, like data privacy, is becoming a topic on which everyone agrees there *should* be regulation and no one agrees what that regulation should do. https://t.co/HcfSIyJQis

[Shira Ovide @ShiraOvide]

I’m hunting for people reusing tech gear in surprising ways. The stranger the better.

Are you reusing VR headsets for hermit crab shells?

Do you make collages from 1950s punched cards?

Do you harvest Xbox parts to power cars?

I made those up, but I'm ISO ingenuity.

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

Shock, awe, and economic fallout:

Important research from @MarcelaEscobari and co. confirms Trump immigration enforcement surges cost U.S. jobs, including jobs held by American-born workers.

https://t.co/rpgUIREjhs

@BrookingsInst

[Mark Muro @MarkMuro1]

What if worker training programs like those we might think of to address #AI-driven dislocation don't work?

My friend @JulianDJacobs shows the problem

@alexolegimas @GoogleDeepMind @JustinHeck @sebkrier @sj_manning

[Alex Imas @alexolegimas]

Excited to see this paper out from the excellent @JulianDJacobs, part of our economics group at @GoogleDeepMind, and Jordan Canedy.

They look at the impact of prior worker retraining programs, finding that contrary to their purpose, most workers stay in the same or similarly exposed sector after retraining.

This is the first paper from our group. Much more to come!